VISUALIZATION, ETC.

Window Seat

What does it look like when you turn a video of a 5-hour flight into a
single image?

I finally put together a web
page showing the results of a
fun hack Bill Cheswick and I worked on in
2011. Bill pointed a GoPro camera out the window of a jetliner, packed
a bunch of extra batteries and high-capacity memory cards, and
recorded the whole thing. By stitching together a single row of pixels
from every frame of the video (the moral equivalent of slit scan
photography), you
get a view of the whole continental US. We got lucky it was a mostly
sunny day.